Here I go being blunt once again....but,There's no way someone could afford the entire collection! They would have to be sold piece by piece.Maybe George Gruhn would be interested....he's got more money than Davy Crockett.

You should re-do the list in standard type, list the instruments by year issued as much as you can and separate them. This should not be difficult. I just took about five minutes (which is a long time fooling with someone else's list) separating one guitar from another and they're all over the place as to when they were (allegedly) made.

If you want people to take your list seriously you should take the time to make a serious, logical, list.

I wouldn't expect anyone to put too much extra money in an asking price merely because Chet signed a guitar. Chet was happy to sign any guitar brought to him and he signed a lot of guitars because of this. There are some on your list that appear to be formerly owned by Chet and you claim to be able to document these so they may have some extra value. Having said that, Chet liked to give guitars away, too.

You do have some nice pieces in there but most of them seem to be garden variety Gretsch guitars.

Condition is everything and of course your are a true optimist to think you'll be able to find a buyer for that entire lot of guitars. Perhaps you should, as suggested, see if George Grun would be interested in selling them on consigmnent.

I agree with Phil & Norm, contact George Gruhn. He knows the true value of these guitars. He will take then on consignment. I read an interview once where he said he tries to price instruments so they will sell in an average of 3 months. He knows how to market vintage & celebrity owned instruments.

Yeah, the Roy Rogers stuff went high but unless this gather of guitars is currently owned by someone famous I'm not so sure Christies would take it. Auction houses take a tare or fee per item too, I think.

Regardles... the initial presentation would be more interesting if the instruments were separated and listed in a column or something of that nature.

Assuming that this is a legitimate inventory and if the owner of said inventory was just wanting to turn it quickly for cash, it would be a good opportunity for a money person to agree to pay an agreed sum and also would agree to "hold" the inventory for a specified period of time for a fee, just in case the owner might want to buy it back at an agreed price later. Depending on the circumstances of course. If neither side got greedy, it could be a win/win. But, it's hard to keep greed out of the equation when you are talking that amount of money. Even at face value, no celebrity ownership taken into consideration, those guitars are still worth a considerable amount of money (that nobody has right now).

At my age of 68 the computer and I are not best of friends.,hence the reason for the illogical list.Believe me Itried, enough said. Since I haven't listed an asking price,thinking that I would ask more for a piece just because Chet signed it is a premature assumption.A number of these can be seen in Jay Scotts book. Most are in near mint condition. I have two offers from dealers. To be honest I don't have high hopes that someone on the board will purchase the collection, but I thought it would not hurt to get the word out.When you consider the number of guitars, the asking price is very reasonable especially when you consider the list price of the Gretsch Eddie Cochran tribute is$12.000.00. Thank you for your imput. No I,m not giving up the guitar, there's more at home.